To effectively curb activities of inter-State gangs, nodal officers in seven northern States would be designated. These nodal officers would continuously be in touch with one another by the medium of a whatsapp group and would have regular exchanges of information. A decision regarding this has been taken in the ‘Fourth North Region Coordination Committee’ held at police officers mess in Dehradun on Saturday. Senior police officers from seven northern States participated in the meeting. Inaugurating the meeting, the Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said that the conference has assumed significance as representatives of five such States are participating in it all of which have international boundaries. He said that in the modern age, technology has reduced distances due to which the need for coordination and communication has increased. Rawat highlighted the need to technically strengthen the police force. Terming the holding of the conference as a foresighted decision having far — reaching consequences, the CM said that it is very important to have synergy and coordination among the police forces of different States.
Speaking on the occasion, the director general (DG) of Uttarakhand police Anil K Raturi said that in the age of fast communication, new challenges in internal and external security are cropping up. He said that there is a need of prompt and effective action against the antinational elements and criminals by the state police despite having limited recourses.
The additional director general (ADG) Ashok Kumar said that the meeting of officers of northern states is being organised in line with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s advice for convening regional conferences while he addressed a conference of the directors general of police in 2015. He said that the Uttarakhand has got the opportunity to convene this conference for the first time. He said that the criminals operate, irrespective of boundaries and it is, therefore, necessary that the police should also break the limitation of boundaries and increase coordination.
Issues like terrorism, crime control, drug control, disaster management, boundary security management, cyber crime, smuggling of drugs, interstate gangs, wanted criminals and police modernization are learnt to have been discussed in course of the meeting. The meeting was attended among others by special police director general BSF Prashant Kumar, additional director general (ADG) UP Alok Kumar and ADG Haryana V Vinay Kumar besides officers from Punjab, Delhi, Chandigarh, National Security Guards (NSG), CBI, CISF, ITBP, NIA and NCRB.